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Weston Pace commented on ARROW-12735:
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+1 for this. I played around with it a bit. Some specific features that
would be nice:
* Better pretty printing of `Datum`, right now I think it shows up as a giant
variant blob
* Ability to easily get at the buffers of an array and visualize them as hex
* gdb functions that hook into the Arrow pretty print methods
> [C++][Dev] Write gdb plugin
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> Key: ARROW-12735
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12735
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: C++, Developer Tools
> Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
> Priority: Major
>
> One common issue when using gdb with Arrow is that it's non-trivial to
> explore and display Arrow data and metadata using built-in gdb functionality.
> One usually needs lots of hand typing of expressions.
> One way to alleviate this would be to write a gdb plugin giving a
> higher-level view of Arrow C++ objects. This should be possible using the gdb
> Python API (though not trivial):
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Python.html#Python
> A sophisticated example of this is the gdb plugin for Python itself:
> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/gdb/libpython.py
> Related:
> https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/gdbundle-plugin-manager
> https://github.com/memfault/gdbundle
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